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pink-mist

Read a few great books lately. Most have been bought for me/reccomended. Usually when i buy something myself its TERRIBLE. Recent reads:

The virgin suicides
The bell jar - Plath
Girl Interrupted - Kaysen
Less than Zero - Ellis (favourite book so far)
Invisible Monsters - Palahniuk


Any reccomendations from this genre? Also, are there any GOOD websites where you can compare similar books. Most i've found are really inaccurate.
Cheers

Vim Fuego

Admittedly, I haven't read any of the books posted but Twelve by Nick McDonell would be in the same ballpark as Less than Zero:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twelve-Nick-McDonell/dp/184354072X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253784056&sr=8-2

I read it a few years back. It's good though reading about privileged US teens blowing their inheritance living like characters in a Larry Clark movie always disturbs me. Which is the point I suppose

Blush_01

I loved Twelve. Million Little Pieces - James Frey reminded me of it a little. Maybe it was the drugs thing.

Shantaram is possibly the best book I've read all year. Just sayin' is all.

randomguy

Some ideas:

Prozac Nation
Running with Scissors
The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
Generation X
The Wasp Factory
The Crow Road
Eureka Street
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Gingerman
Fierce Invalids home from Hot Climates

And I think Middlesex is great.

And people who like the stuff you like normally grow up to like Raymond Chandler novels. It's a little known fact, but true.

whiterob81

this website is pretty good for comparing similar authors. worth checking out. someone on here recommended it to me a few months ago.

http://www.literature-map.com/

going by your reading list i'd recommend the following off the top of my head:

one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken kesey
hey nostradamus by douglas coupland
i was dr mengele's assistant by niklos mysli

Elliemental

Avoid Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel was just sooo annoying. Constantly blaming her mother for her depression. Wanted to slap her by the end.
Anyway, you might like Life After God (Douglas Coupland), or Catcher In The Rhye (J.D Salinger).

randomguy

Elliemental wrote: »

Elizabeth Wurtzel was just sooo annoying. Constantly blaming her mother for her depression. Wanted to slap her by the end.

I wouldn't disagree - only recommended it because it is similar to the others the OP liked. I'd say the exact same about The Bell Jar, but the OP seemed to like it.

ADTR

Check out more Ellis and Palahniuk. You won't be disappointed.

not bakunin

American Psycho is brilliant, though granted, fairly fuucked up. Far more graphic than the film

Lux23

Middlesex
The Secret History
My Little Friend
Running with scissors